Creating engaging and accessible data visualizations of high quality in an efficient and preferably reproducible way is an essential tool in a data scientist's toolbox. After completing the course, ...

This approximately three hour workshop gives an introduction the ggplot2 package for newcomers to the R. Participants are immediately taught to work with R markdown so that it becomes a natural part ...

Note the column name, mpg, is unquoted. That feature hasn’t been handy, though, if you want to write your own R functions using the tidyverse. That’s because base R functions usually need quoted ...

There’s a reason ggplot2 is one of the most popular add-on packages for R: It’s a powerful, flexible and well-thought-out platform to create data visualizations you can customize to your heart’s ...

The ggplot2 package is powerful and almost endlessly customizable, but sometimes small tweaks can be a challenge. The ggtext package aims to simplify styling text on your visualizations. In this ...

Circular layout plots typically consist of sectors and tracks. The intersection of sectors and tracks is called a cell (Figure 1). This kind of layout can not only transparently represent the ...

Some of my colleagues think of me as super data-sciencey compared to other academic statisticians. But one place I lose tons of street cred in the data science community is when I talk about ggplot2.